Breast fed babies are less likely to become obese children
...f breast feeding from obesity is more likely to be related to the composition of breast milk than lifestyle factors associated with breast feeding....Aspirin's role in colon cancer prevention focus of $5 million grant
... "This program integrates a lot of different but related efforts inpathology, surgery, clinical pharmacolog...etter understanding of theprecise role of COX2 and related biochemical components in thedevelopment/prevention of colon cancer is hoped to ultimately lead tode...College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
...some way listed higher alcohol use and morealcohol related problems than did students who were not coerced. "Alcohol is clearly a major factor, but not the only one," said Larimer."Alcohol not only impairs the awareness of warning signals about a sexualsituation but it also impairs a person's abil...Chronic, heavy cocaine use associated with long-lasting impaired function
... known as MDMA. In that study, too,the problem was related to the amount of the drug taken and lasted at least twoweeks after stopping use. Dr. Bolla and Jean Lud Cadet, M.D., Clinical Director and Chief ofNeuropsychiatry at the NIDA Intramural Research Program, studied 30 individualswho had used coc...New coating could lead to safer, more convenient asthma drugs
...who will receive his doctoratethis month. Research related to the project was funded in part by UF'sEngineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology. Asthma afflicts 14.6 million people nationally and causes more than 5,600 deathsannually, according to the American Lung Association. The chroni...New anti-angiogenic proteins discovered
...e proteins appear to be part of a larger family of related molecules,perhaps created as natural chimeras of metalloproteinase and thrombospondinprotein," said Dr. Iruela-Arispe. "We believe that the original parent of suchgene may have arisen 700 to 900 million years ago. Each member of the familymay have ...Amputation rates are rising in elderly despite advances in treatment
... The increased number of amputations also was related to limited growthin hospitals' capacity to perform lower-extremity bypass surgery andangioplasty. The amputation study, which was funded by the U.S. Agency for HealthCare Policy and Research, appears in the August issue of the American Journa...Among Puerto Ricans, immigrant status overrated as barrier to adequate prenatal care
... It is the psychological factors, especially those related to unwantedpregnancies, which are the most frequented cited barriers to seeking adequateprenatal health care. Puerto Rican women who migrate to the United States haverelatively few complaints about the level of their prenatal care as long astheir pre...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...another 19 percent saying they somewhat agree.In a related question, 72 percent also strongly or somewhat agr...ncern. The survey has so many health care related questions, that the surveyorsdecided to add two more questions to learn more about personal health h...Medicine, international law and weapons
...1999 pp412-5 (Incidence of weapon injuries not related to interfactional combat in Afghanistan in 1996: prospective cohort study) BMJ Volume 319 14 August 1999 pp415-7 Most of this week's issue of the BMJ is devoted to issues around medicine and international law. A number of researchers from the In...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...cimetidine andhistamine H2 antagonists is probably related to underlying conditions of stomachulcers rather than the drugs themselves. In addition, an increased risk was associated with an increased body mass index(BMI). Researchers found that compared with people who had a body mass index(BMI) of less than...Mayo Clinic study reports that centenarians do well following surgery
...c physicians are currently conductingmore research related to this topic. To receive Mayo Clinic news releases by e-mail, send a message to newsbureau@mayo.edu . Include your name, affiliation and e-mail address. Mayo Clinic news releases are available on the Mayo Home Page, http://www.mayo.edu . ...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...ndrome is a broad class of lung diseasethat can be related to: trauma, smoking, long term chronic obstructed ...layer, especially theshear viscosity, are directly related to the mechanism of monolayer collapse. Ding explained the use of a magnetic needle viscome...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...ort 12 years to correct various medical conditions related todeformities she was born with. But the one she w...disintegrated as a result of aninfection, possibly related to a previous surgery to move the bones in hermid-face forward. The infection left Emily with large ...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
... self-administered questionnaire on numeroustopics related to HIV and sexual behaviors during each study year between 1993and 1997. During the first study year, 37 percent of the participants reported havingunprotected anal intercourse. By the fourth study year, this number hadincreased to one half. Sixty-......ment of a living donor'sliver is transplanted to a related or unrelated individual, or in a"reduced-size" transplant, a cadaver liver is cut down to fit a smallerrecipient. "Reduced-size transplants have been around for a long time, and there arecircumstances in which they are appropriate and necessary, but ...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
...new ways to control eating disorders, obesity, and related disorders, such as diabetes. Research support and the number of scientists in the field increased dramatically. In the body, leptin comes from fat cells in direct proportion to the amount of stored energy. Thicker thighs, flabbier arms and a bigge...Behavioral program boosts antibody that fights breast cancer
...an immune response directly related to fighting breastcancer." She presented the results Aug. 21 in Boston in aninvited address at the annual meeting of the AmericanPsychological Associatio...Study finds parental influence still important during adolescence
... environments and how they related to the delinquentacts which the respondents said they committed. The study looked at all delinquent behavior -- from skippingschool to acts of violence -- except for drug use.......women andmen to learn how cardiovascular health is related to age and social support. "We found that social support moderated age-related differences in bloodpressure and age predicted higher resting blood pressure but only forindividuals low in social support," said Bert Uchino, head of the study. In thi...